Typographical machine.



I. R. ROGERS. TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG,23,10U,

Patented Oct. 27, 1914.

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J. R. ROGERS; TYPOGRAPHICAL MAUHINB.

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Jo'HN. RAPHAEL means, on BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, Essxenon TO MEBGENTHALER TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

jlatented Oct. 27, 1!)?! 4.

a lication filed August a, 1911. serial No. 645,498.

To aZZ whom it may concern Be it known that 1, JOHN Rarnam. Rosana, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented anew and useful Improvement in 'lypographical Machines, of which the following is a specification. I

My invention relates to typographical machines, and more particularly to that class thereof known to the public under the name linotype, and illustrated for instance in U. S. Letters Patent to O. Morgenthaler, No. 436,532. In machines of this class, the matrices are stored in a magazine, are released therefrom by the manipulation of the keyboard mechanism, are assembled in line. and are then presented to a mold, wherein the sing or linotyp'e is cast. After this, the matrices are distributed and restored to the mngazinefrom which they started. It is to this restoring or distributing means that my invention specifically re lates. In the ordinary form of distributor, the-matrices are caused to pass along a groovedrail or bar until they reach the proper magazine channels, into which they drop in the manner well understood in the art. The channel entrances are not located in immediate proximity to the distribntei bar or rail, and it sometimes happens that a matrix will not drop directly thereinto, but is displaced or tilted to such an extent that it is caught and held partly above the top This tilting or failure of the matrices to drop directly is caused in several ways, but chiefly by the fact that just at the moment they are released fromlthe grooves of the distributor ail, there is a tendency for them to pivot or swing about theirsup 'iortin teeth and this tendency is emphasized and increased in the case of the thicker matrices whose teeth are located at one side thereof and conscquentlywell be yond the center of' gravity. My improved devices a re designed to correct this liability, and to that ,end I have provided means whereby as the matrix falls the upper part thereof is engaged and guided so as to mini mize the tendency to tilt laterally. Preterably 1 employ a combplatc formed with projecting teeth between which the 11 per cars of the matrices pass, and in the .orni illustrated and described herein this combplate is located between two of the distributer screws and in in'unediato'proiiimity to the railor bar. ()bviously, howei cr, many changcs and variations will suggest th'em selves to those skilled in t1 e art without departing from the scope of the invention:

' and generally speaking. i desire it to be un dcrstood that 1 do not limit myself to any specific form or embodiment except in so faras such limitations are specified in the claims.

Referring to the drawings: Figure l a transverse vertical section through the dis tributing u'iechanism of a linotypc machine, having; my invention applied thereto; Fig. is a longitudinal vertical section thereof,

taken substantially on the line .l' l of Fig.

l; and Fig. 3 shows the improved combplate detached.

As is usual in linotype machines, the matrices X are provided at their upper ends with sustaining teeth which engage the permuted grooves on the distributor bar or rail A, along which the matrices are fed by the distributor screws li, it, in the customary manner. When the matrix reaches the proper point. it dis-engages from the bar A and drops into the corresponding channel the matrix and to )revcut it from fallin D over laterally, I have devised means to engage its upper portion innnediatcly at the time itdrops from the distributor rail. 'lhese means are preferably in the form of the bar D formed with lateral and inclinedrecesses D, constituting in effect a species ofcomh-plate, which I locate between two of the screws B, it, and in such position that the upper ear X of each matrix passes into and is guided by one of the recesses I) at the instant it drops from the rail A, as clearly shown in Fig. 1. In this way I minimize the tendency of the matrix to tilt or fall over laterally, so that it will pass properly into the entrance 0, it being noted that by guid -I iii) ing or restraining the upper portion of the matrix at the moment it leaves the bar A,

the ell'ect of gravity is to straighten it or to.

give it a substantially vertical position during its descent. Not only is this result secured, but due to the inclined form of the recesses. D the matrices are also moved edgewise' so, that their .upper cars will not contact with the lower screw B in passing it. it will be further noted that. by my imroved construction the matrices are properly guided and controlled from the time they leave the distributor rail until they enter their corresponding channels in the magazine entrance or magazine, as the case maybe.

Having thus described my invention, its construction and mode of operation, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is as follows:

1. in a typographical machine, the combination of matrix distributing mechanism, channels to-i cceive the matrices therefrom, and intermediate extended guides between which the matrices pass, the said guides being arranged so as toengage'the matrices before they enter the said channels; whereby thev matrices are prevented from falling over ilatu'ise or sidewise in their passage to the channels,

2. Iii a typographical machine, the combination of matrix distributing mechanism, channels to receive the matrices therefrom and intermediate vertical guides to engage the sides of the matrices in their passage from the distributing mechanism to the channels, the said guides being arranged to engage the matrices before they enter the channels and of an extent suliicient to maintain their engagement with the matrices until. they have passed well within the channels.

8. in a typographical machine, the combination of matrix distributing mechanism), channels to receive the matrices therefrom, and vertically extended guides to engage laterally the upper portions of the .niatrices, the said guides being arrangei so as to engage the matrices before the latter enter the said channels; whereby the matrices are delivered to the channels in an erect position.

4. ln a. typographical machine, the combination of matrix distributing mechanism, channels to receive the matrices therefrom, and a comb plate D. provided with the vertically elongated recesses D Whose opposite extended Walls en 'age the upper ears of the matrices before the latter pass into their receiving channels.

- 5. In a typographical machine comprising distributing mechanism, the combination of the distributer raihand a conveying screw, with supplemental guiding means located in proximity to the rail and projecting over the screw, whereby the matrix is guided laterally in its descent and also moved edgewisc to clear the screw. I

(S. In a typographical machine comprisin distributing mechanism, the combination of the distributor rail and a conveying screw, with supplemental guiding means located in proximity to the rail and projecting over the screw and formed with grooves to engage the matrices laterally; whereby the matrix guided laterally in its descent and moved. cdgewisc to clear the screw.

7. In a tvpographical machine, the combination oi matrix distributing mechanism,

a series of channels to receive the matrices therefrom, and a series of intermediate vertical guides between which the matrices pass, said guides being located in immediate proximity to the distributing mechanism so as to engage the matrices the instant they are released therefrom, and the said guides being extended sullicicntly to maintain their engagement with thematriccs until they are ell within the channels, all for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand this twenty first day of .Alflgllsi, 19111.,

in the presence of two attesting witnesses.

JOHN ltAPllAl lL ROGERS.

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